New affordable housing project proposed

Published 8:00 pm, Sunday, September 7, 2008

The proposal calls for a 32-unit multi-family housing complex in two buildings on a site abutting the police station property on the south. Ten of the units would be designated affordable.

The two-acre site would be formed by merging three properties on Poplar Street (Route 202) and Buczek Lane.

Joseph Buczek of Brookfield owns a one-acre parcel at 45 Poplar St. that holds a three-bedroom ranch house built in 1966. The house will be demolished if the project goes forward.

Arif, Azem and Shaquir Lekaj of Sherman own two adjacent and vacant half-acre sites on Buczek Lane that abut the town-owned land housing the police station. One of the sites also fronts Route 202.

According to plans on file in the zoning office, there would be 16 units in each building and a parking lot between the two buildings. Each building would have a community room, washers and dryers, and a secure storage area.